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Usability and Design
The Usability and design space brings together the latest information, research, tools, podcasts, and conference information related to usability and design. Content is pulled from IBM and non-IBM sites.
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Ajax Resource Center
This space is your one-stop shop for information on the Ajax programming model, including articles and tutorials, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, events, and news. If it's happening, it's covered here.
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Linux Security
The Linux security space gives an overview of security issues related to Linux and covers all aspects of securing a Linux distribution. It also links to Linux security-related news and articles.
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Ruby Programming
Take a closer look at Ruby, a dynamic programming language that is growing rapidly in popularity. Explore its intriguing features and learn what programmers are doing with it.
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Wiki: WebSphere, SOA, J2EE in Practice
This wiki discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today.
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Common Add-Ins
Rating: none sp1ff - 10/11/2006 Discover a way to write Add-Ins such that a single
binary can be hosted across multiple versions of DevStudio, Visual Studio, and Office. It uses C++ & ATL, but the principles should carry
over to other languages and frameworks.
VSStub
Rating: none Per Nilsson - 05/03/2004 Provides a basic implementation of the Developer Studio Object Model.
Visual Studio Add-RGB Macro Creator
Rating: none Sergey Pimanov - 09/03/2003 This add-in shows a standard ColorSelect dialog box and forms text that looks like an RGB-macro string (RGB(100, 120, 130)). (The article, addin, and source code were updated.)
Align Leftmost Macros, Easy Column-Aligned Formatting for (Almost) Everything
Rating: none Vincent Scheib - 03/14/2003 A set of Microsoft Visual Studio (MSVC6) macros for formatting code. These macros allow things to be aligned to the same column. It's very useful for aligning equals signs, and so forth. (The article was updated and source code was added.)
Zipping Workspace Source Files from MSDEV
Rating: none mq778 - 03/06/2003 Use an add-in that zips all sources registered in an open workspace and stores the resulting zip file in a predefined backup directory.
Build a VC++ Add-in with Support for Numerous Features
Rating: SI-HONG, O - 12/19/2002 Check out this Visual C++ add-in that contains several features. You'll support expanded sorting with two modes (character and number) as well as command function, source-header flipping, changeable text format (Windows/Unix), and more.
Using the Shorter XSL Syntax Add-In
Rating: none Remco Bouckaert - 08/09/2002 Learn how to switch between XML-based syntaxes like XSL and something more readable like ShoXS (and switch back) in the VC++ IDE.
WinPos VC++6 IDE Addin
Rating: none Walter Eicher - 06/25/2002 Positioning windows with Visual Studio for debugging and more.
ToDo Cached Add-on for Visual C++
Rating: none Alex Kucherenko - 01/10/2002 To-do cached add-on was designed to simplify developers tasks, like debugging and code management. As a result of my work a Visual Studio Add-on component was created.
Project Ninja
Rating: none Tim Stubbs - 10/11/2001 Updated to include sort, help, and more. Load multiple projects and files via a Visual Studio add-in.
CFileDialog AddIn
Rating: none Chuck Conn - 06/14/2001 A Visual Studio Add-In.
Extending WndTabs - The WndTabs SDK
Rating: none Oz Solomonovich - 04/10/2001 The WndTabs SDK allows Visual C++ addins to interface with WndTabs, adding new capabilities to the WndTabs tabs.
'Window Tabs' Developer Studio Add-In
Rating: Oz Solomonovich - 04/03/2001 Add-in that augments Visual Studio UI by giving you much better control over open windows
SmartHelp 2.04
Rating: none Goran Mitrovic - 02/27/2001 Fantastic Add-In that interfaces with MSDN Library
MessageBox Visual Studio Add-In
Rating: Thomas Aust - 09/20/2000 Very cool (you need to see this!) add-in for adding Message Box code to your application. Doesn't sound like much, but give it a try. Extremely useful!
Project Line Counter Add-In
Rating: Oz Solomonovich - 05/06/2000 Great add-in that enables you to quickly ascertain source code statistics for your entire project
Creating Macros for a Slide-In Prompt and to Renumber
Rating: none Eric Sanders - 10/21/2002 Create a couple of macros using Visual Basic. The SlideInPrompt macro inserts a text string into a selected column. The Renumber macro will sequentially renumber a selected column.
Visual Studio Tags Support
Rating: none Paul S. Vickery - 03/06/2001 Brings the extremely useful concept of "tags" to the Visual Studio
Spellcheck Macro for Visual Studio
Rating: none Seth A. Robinson - 02/18/2001 Very cool macro that uses the Word spell checker (through COM) from Visual Studio; which means that your already defined words are used!
C++ Operators Macro
Rating: none Yury Chervonij - 01/22/2000 Auto-completes and inserts code for C++ keywords such as for, which, etc.
Improved line sort
Rating: none Chad Loder - 05/13/1999 Improved line sort
Case switching
Rating: none David Little - 11/29/1998 A macro that switch lower case to upper case and vice versa
Custom built files
Rating: none Peter Gavin - 11/29/1998 Two macros that add custom built (assembler) files into a project with predefined build settings
Be Sweet, a Set of Visual Source Code Browsers
Rating: none Marco Welti - 07/02/2003 Although Visual Studio provides a visual class browser, it's absolutely unusable because it's only updated on a compiler run, doesn't show inheritance, and last but not least, shows all classes of the project in a single tree. Learn how to create five different styles of browsers: Outline, Hierarchy, Type, Method, and a Workspace/File Browser. (The article and source code were updated.)
Code Generation
Hierarchical TableAdapters 301
Rating: none William R. Vaughn - 08/08/2007 Are you having problems setting up a TableAdapter that can be fed from stored procedures instead of base tables? Here is a road map to guide you to success.
Introducing Visual Studio 2005 IntelliSense Code Snippets
Rating: Patrick Gallucci - 10/20/2005 Explore the new features of IntelliSense code snippet technology in Visual Studio 2005, and you'll have a nice library of your own snippets in no time.
Excluding Text Lines In Visual Studio
Rating: none VenCain - 09/25/2001 Exclude lines of code from displaying in Visual Studio 6. Display more of the code you want to see!
Active Comments Add-In
Rating: none Andrei Levin - 10/10/2000 Enables you to point your code to URLs, MSDN links and even audio clips!!
Comment Function Macro for C/C++
Rating: none Yevgeniy Marchenko - 10/09/2000 One of the best, this macro solves several issues with other comment macros
Custom Comment-Out Macro
Rating: none Ilic Ferretti - 08/02/2000 Aside from Visual Basic and C++ comments, this macro also supports Python script, scripts inside HTML pages, VBScript and Javascript
Comment Block Macros
Rating: none Vu Dang - 05/07/2000 Macros to quickly comment and uncomment blocks of code
Auto-Commenting macro
Rating: none Nenad Nikolic - 02/03/1999 Creates comment block at beginning of selected function (programmer, function description, arguments, etc.)
Create a Visual C++ Wizard for Visual Studio 2005
Rating: Marius Bancila - 10/30/2006 Read a tutorial for writing a Visual C++, HTML-based wizard that generates a simple Win32 console-based customized application.
Custom AppWizard - Programmer's About Box
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 05/20/2000 AppWizard that automatically includes an About box that links to your home page in all your applications
Debugging
[Updated] [Debugging] - Symbols
Rating: Darka - 07/18/2006 Learn how to set up and use the Microsoft Symbol Server to help you debug applications under Windows.
Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 05/05/2006 While Visual Studio Team System cannot resolve the two intrinsic C++ unit-testing problems (cultural issues related to agile programming and lack of metadata in native C++), it does deliver a polished unit-testing framework for C++.
Quick Debugger Visualizers in Visual Studio 2005
Rating: none Mike Gunderloy - 04/05/2006 Debugger visualizers allow you to provide a custom user interface for the display of particular classes of data when your program is in debug mode. While there are some complex use cases for this, you can actually derive considerable benefit from very simple debugger visualizers—ones that take ten minutes or less to build.
Error Lookup Tool
Rating: Marius Bancila - 02/24/2005 An easy-to-use tool to find the description of various error codes, especially the ones returned by Platform SDK APIs, but also extendable for application-specific codes.
StringWatch Add-in for Visual C++ 6.0
Rating: none Eugene Ivakhiv - 11/19/2001 Debugging of code operating with mid-weight and heavy strings under Visual C++ is a real pain. Visual C++ native debugger has no cunning mechanism to show long strings. Of course, there are some debugger symbols like "s" and "su" which allow to see at most 252 symbols of string. But what about the rest?
Make File Pair
Rating: none Per Nilsson - 02/23/1999 Make File Pair
File Opening
"Toggle Header" Add-In for Visual Studio
Rating: none powerstation - 08/09/2000 Add-In that solves problem of macros crashing when they can't open the current file's associated header file
Opening at current file's path
Rating: none M Basava Raju - 02/02/1999 Displays the Open File dialog (and presets its directory to that of the currently open file
Visual C++/SourceSafe Change and Build Tracer
Rating: none Bob Mahon - 08/13/2002 Macros that enable Visual C++ developers to trace project builds and changes in Visual SourceSafe.
Incrementing Workspace Build Versions
Rating: none Dean Whipple - 05/31/2001 This program readies workspace files and checks the projects it contains. Each is checked for changes, since the last time the program was executed.
An Automatic Build Incrementer for VC6
Rating: Curt Blackmon - 07/21/2000 Macros that enables Visual C++ developers to automatically increment their application revision numbers on each build
Visual C++ Class Designer
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 10/02/2007 The release of Visual Studio 2008 brings support for using the Visual Studio Class Designer with Visual C++ projects. Look at the differences in how the Class Designer works with C++ compared to purely managed languages, and learn about the range of functionality available to C++ developers.
VSTS Annotations for C++: Beyond Just Documenting Method Behavior
Rating: none Nick Wienholt - 04/07/2006 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) code annotations enable C++ developers to attach metadata to a method's parameters to explicitly define the correct usage of the method.
MFC 8: I'm Not Dead Yet
Rating: Victor Volkman - 07/11/2005 To prove that the Microsoft Foundation Class library is not dying, Microsoft has made some changes. Explore what is new and changed in MFC 8, coming with Visual C++ 2005.
Visual C++ 2005 IDE Enhancements
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 02/07/2005 Improvements to the IDE are one of the givens in any new release of Visual C++; hence, they are often overlooked. Take a closer look at some of the new features that the Visual C++ 2005 IDE delivers.
Simplified Development Tools—The Microsoft Express Products
Rating: Bradley Jones - 06/29/2004 Microsoft expands Visual Studio and SQL Server to the non-programmers, hobbyists, and students with simplified, low-cost to no-cost versions.
Enhanced Windows List Developer Studio Addin
Rating: none Yuri Tkachov - 02/23/2001 Add-in to Visual Studio that completely revamps the Window List dialog to include sorting and filtering
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